Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981

Alec Waugh (1898–1981) was a British novelist. As only limited public information is available here, details of his life are not recorded in the existing materials. His works span novels, memoirs, and accounts of school life. His representative work The Loom of Youth is set against the background of boarding-school life and attracted attention upon publication; Roland Whately: A Novel displays his skill in novelistic narrative; The Prisoners of Mainz draws on wartime experience; Myself When Young: Confessions is a work of reminiscence; and Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters directly examines English public-school education. Overall, his writing often draws on personal experience and the realities of British society and education, with a plain style and a certain autobiographical quality and value as a record of its time.